Welcome to Bohemian Benevolent and Literary Association (BBLA)
PRESERVING CZECH AND SLOVAK CULTURE IN NEW YORK CITY SINCE 1891
PRESERVING CZECH AND SLOVAK CULTURE IN NEW YORK CITY SINCE 1891
BBLA member organizations host some of the best events in the city—concerts, festivals, lectures, and film screenings—at Manhattan’s Bohemian National Hall.
Brenda Flanagan and Hana Waisserova, the co-authors of Women’s Artistic Dissent: Repelling Totalitarianism in Pre-1989 Czechoslovakia, will discuss their book and pay tribute to creative Czech women dissidents.
A lecture with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and historian Anne Applebaum. An evening in the spirit of Vaclav Havel, featuring keynote remarks by Anne Applebaum, moderated Q&A with John Shattuck, and wine reception.
Staged reading of a comic thriller that mixes wall street-style misdeeds with mafia-style consequences, based on the real Estonian banking scandal in which Russian oligarchs used Estonian banks to launder their money into the EU.